RAIL passengers across St Helens face significant disruption on Friday due to strike action by the train driver union ASLEF.

Northern says it will be unable to operate any of its 2,500 daily services on Friday, December 8 - meaning there will be a major impact on commuters, workers and those travelling for nights out ahead of Christmas.

Services between St Helens and neighbouring cities will be severely hit. For instance, there are no services listed between St Helens and Liverpool 

The train operator has also advised customers to ‘check before you travel’ for all journeys until Saturday, December 9 due to "action short of strike" by ASLEF members and strikes taking place on other train operators’ services during those dates.

Significant disruption

Tricia Williams, chief operating officer at Northern, said: “This strike by ASLEF will have a significant impact on our customer’s ability to get where they want to be.

“Unfortunately, our advice is that Northern customers should not attempt to travel on Friday, December 8 and should make alternative arrangements.

“Given that ASLEF has organised multiple strikes on different days for individual train operators, people travelling with Northern to connect onto other services across the country between 1st and 9th December should double check all legs of their journey before attempting to travel.

“We can only apologise to customers for the inevitable disruption this action by ASLEF will cause.”

For more information, visit: www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/strikes.